I have lost all control of the damn mouse. Any Ideas? Worked fine this morning has been getting worse all day. This is not a joke post.

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

clean the mouse ball.

-- p (d@e.l), January 01, 2000.

Did that twice. Didn't help. No dirt, no dust??????

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

and the mouse pad and table...

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 01, 2000.

All clean. Guess I will go out and buy a new mouse.............

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

Scotty, Check the system date - see if it is way off - someone else had a similar problem - reset it to 1/1/2000

-- ExCop (Yinadral@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

Scotty,

Clean the two axis rollers where the mouse ball fits. You probably have lint built up on them, particularly the horizontal, or azimuth, axis one.

S.O.B.

-- sweetolebob (buffgun@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

check the keyboard for a stuck key; especially Shift or Cntrl; sometimes they are hard to see, but one stuck key will cause havoc with the mouse

-- Perry Arnett (pjarnett@pdqnet.net), January 01, 2000.

Thanks to all.

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

I've also had trouble with my mouse not recognizing links on the internet just in the last hour. It's a new computer and mouse- I thought it might be my server. Problem cleared when I rebooted, tho'.

-- Patti (justicep@concentric.net), January 01, 2000.

Don't know if you all will see this but here is another thing...clean out your cache[Netscape] or Temporary Internet Files[Explorer]....you might be running out of RAM....

-- Satanta (EventHoriz@n.com), January 01, 2000.

NO ANSWER BUT MY SERIAL MOUSE GETS STUCK WHEN I SIGN ON TO AOL 7.0, 6.0 AND HAVE TO SIGN ON TO AOL TO GET ONLINE. CHANGED SERIAL MOUSE, RELOADED DRIVERS FOR MOUSE. CLEANDED MOUSES AND PAD, CLEANED AOL CACHE, AND EVEN RELOADED AOL. MOUSE STICKS ON MY OLDER COMPUTER ONLY WHEN DIALING UP, WORKED OK WITH MY DSL BUT NOW I HAVE TO DIAL UP AND WHEN DIALING TO AOL MOUSE LOCKS UP. TOOK OFF MODEM DEVICES FROM AOL AND RELOADED (AUTO)DETECT, AND STILL LOCKS UP, ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS, WIN 98, NOW TRIED (ME) I HAVE AT THE MOMENT. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE WELCOME WITH DETAILS. THANKS SO MUCH RAY

-- RAY FER (RAYGARFER@AOL.COM), February 09, 2002.

Um did you go to control panel and click mouse try reinstalling your new r old mouse and restarting your computer. Same thing happened to me and it worked fine when i did those steps.

-- Tom Sullivan (tomdogg219@aol.com), February 10, 2002.